Quotes About Contentment

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.

Why Your Dog Is Happier Than You Are

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

he contended only for glory, and was contented to leave him the lady.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

One who seeks what he does not need is devoid of the pure delight God reserves for those who seek him undividedly...The pursuer of superfluity quite completely lacks the fulfilling joy and the rest that Jesus promises to the burdened who come to him.

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

My childhood was great. We never had much but we were happy. I was a handful, though, and I did some naughty things.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

You know, I'm glad that what I want doesn't necessarily always come true.

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.